Posts by Che Tibby
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i'm coming round to the idea that what wikileaks has done is finally, once and for all, killed the image of "freedom USA".
abu ghrahib and guantanamo bay started closing the lid, but more and more of these leaks are really nailing them shut.
the US is a corrupt, evil giant. just like every power before it.
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meanwhile, Shell is - surprise surprise - up to it's eyeballs in Nigeria.
you know, the place with the oil slick bigger than the Gulf of Mexico that no-one seems interested in.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Neil Morrison,
why is it every cult leader invariably has something dodgy going on in their sex life
invariably, because they can.
that mick jagger comparison was a good one. men with groupies will indulge.
#notmakingexcuses
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Danielle,
no no, that was directed at one of Craig's diatribes, not the victims of sexual assault.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
yup. the hysteria surrounding this seems to be masking what is normal behaviour.
i have very clear memories of being "taken advantage of" while sleeping - you know, because you can with guys.
i awoke and my thought process was "WHAT THE F... oooo... awesome."
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<che writes "the italian knows too much” in his book>
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Tim Hannah,
weirdly, after i typed that, someone called and asked if i enjoyed gardening...
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Liberation from within, rather than wait to be liberated from without, as Che (not you, Tibby) used to say.
speaking of womanisers... (and murderers.)
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
yeah, i've worked with government data and records for a few years now.
the first thing to note is that there is no, "file on citizen X". you'd need to compile that information from a range of highly uncooperative agencies, all of whom are extremely cognizant of the Privacy Act (although the paranoid in me says the SIS or whoever the hell could likely get this stuff. the question is whether they're in fact smart enough to know what to do with it. i leave you to answer that one).
second, most of your and my data is trivial in the extreme.
third, what data i've seen is usually anonymised (income data in the LEED dataset for example). if i tried really really hard, using some pretty big deductive leaps, i *might* be able to work out something like "John Key's income". but the effort required would be both tedious and time-consuming.
now, an agency releasing data to discredit me or anotherindividual? as you rightly point out...
finally, none of this is anything like the stuff wikileaks wants to release. for example, the income and perks of elected officials spending public money. or, any and all of the information you and i have access to via the OIA.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
for starters it would lift some of the necessity to ruthlessly pursue assange. why put significant diplomatic or other resources into extradicting a figurehead when it makes no difference to the output of his organisation?
now wikileaks faces a rival start-up group
well heeeellllooo mr hydra.